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In May 1992, as my junior year at UC Santa Cruz was winding down, I went home to San Francisco. Some of my old friends had to prepare for one of their dads, getting re-married. At Japantown Bowl, we heard and liked The Cure's "Friday I'm In Love."
I also went to Ultimate Sound, then located on Kearny, between Post and Sutter. A customer was inquiring about the $600 VPI HW-19 Jr. It could be ordered with an arm board for a Rega RB-300 tonearm. But if someone wanted the RB-300, he would rather just get it with Rega's own Planar 3 turntable. Instead, VPI customers usually went with the AudioQuest PT tonearm. Whereas the RB-300 had a fixed cable, you could upgrade the AQ PT, by getting a different tonearm-to-phonostage interconnect.
Kimber Kable do make a Carbon series tonearm-to-phonostage interconnect. Its retail price is $776 for termination, plus $100 per half meter. It can be ordered with a DIN or the WBT-0114 locking-barrel RCA.
My friend's dad got remarried during Memorial Day weekend 1992. It took place in Golden Gate Park. He did admit that, with my friend's mom, he "messed up." Anyway, it was a nice and pleasant wedding. My friends were then in college. We did not feel as though we were adults. Yet, we were not little kids. Those on the semester system were already done with their school year. But it turned out that almost everyone, regardless of which college she attended, was coming home to S.F. for the summer. And so was I. So everyone invited herself over to my place, where she could hear what music sounded like, via high-end audio products.
While we dreamed of Kimber's speaker cables, in interconnects, they had the underwhelming KC-1, and then nothing, until the unaffordable $350 KCAG.
When it comes to the single-ended RCA Kimber Carbon line-level interconnect, we messed up. You see, it is not marked for directionality. So you have to listen both ways. Once you determine which way sounds better, then you need to treat it properly, on a cable burn-in device.
We messed up. Even after determining which way to burn-in the Kimber Carbon IC, we left them on the audiodharma Cable Cooker for 4 days. Turns out, that 4 days is too long. So all of our Carbon ICs are over-Cooked, and sound awful. We are giving them regular playing time, and they are very slowly losing the over-Cooked sonic signature.
More to follow,
-Lummy The Loch Monster
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Topic - Kimber Carbon IC, Part 8 - Luminator 18:26:41 02/02/22 (0)
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